From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Target-agnostic virtio?
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:24:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5150F8DC.6040300@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1364259174.15703.71@driftwood>
On 2013-03-25 17:52, Rob Landley wrote:
> Can the virtio things (serial, network, block, virtfs) be used on arbitrary
> targets yet? I.E. Can I use a virtio network device on arm, mips, powerpc,
> sparc... (And can the virtio serial console hook up to qemu's stdin/stdout in
> -nographic mode yet?)
>
> I asked this in 2010 and the answer at the time was "no". Still not entirely
> sure why.
Yes, so long as the machine description has a supported bus, e.g. pci.
It took almost nothing to hook up virtio-pci to alpha.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-26 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-26 0:52 [Qemu-devel] Target-agnostic virtio? Rob Landley
2013-03-26 1:24 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2013-03-26 3:55 ` Rob Landley
2013-03-26 7:34 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-13 17:03 ` Rob Landley
2013-04-14 9:38 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-14 9:59 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2013-04-14 19:49 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-15 17:21 ` Rob Landley
2013-04-17 2:15 ` Rob Landley
2013-04-20 10:36 ` Blue Swirl
2013-04-21 5:37 ` Rob Landley
2013-04-27 20:00 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-04-29 5:43 ` Rob Landley
2013-04-30 21:31 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2013-05-01 17:12 ` Rob Landley
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